On Saturday, November 11th Hired Hands' Jaymie Feldmann and Brittney Klein attended the Split Rock Cedar Ranch Total Dispersal Sale, held in Fort Worth, TX. Read more about how we helped this dispersal sale in our full article.

The TLCA's Longhorn World Championship Sale ​was held ​on Friday, October 20th in ​​Oklahoma City, OK. Over 70 head of Registered Texas Longhorns were consigned and auctioned off to a crowd of breeders in the Cox Convention Center in downtown OKC. The data below was gathered by Hired Hand. We share these trends and averages for our customers and breeders in the Longhorn Industry who could better their programs by analyzing it as it best suites them such as this data: These are averages for Sires with at least 2 offspring selling. Their offsprings averages are listed below starting with the highest average. SITTIN BULL $3,880, CV COWBOY CASANOVA $7,250, JP RIO GRANDE $2,700

From October 20th - 21st Hired Hands' Molly Clubb and ​Jaymie Feldmann attended the Texas Longhorn Cattle Association's Longhorn World Championship. This event included a sale, measurement competition and futurity. The "LWC" ended with the All-Industry Banquet and Awards Presentation, all held in the Cox Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hired Hand had a booth for the 3 day event.

Since the beginning of 2017 Hired Hand has been compiling additional sales data and sharing it via our Blog and Mobile Marketing program. We plan to continue to share these stats from future consignment sales as well. We hope that they will be beneficial to breeders and show Industry sales trends. We welcome your feedback and requests.
Please find below some additional Millennium Futurity Sale results courtesy of your friends at Hired Hand*:
Millennium Futurity Sale Results:
42 of 49 lots sold for a total of $133,550 with an $3,179 Average
There was 1 Cash Cow sold. Lot 46 for $13,500.
Top 10 lots average: $7,000
Top 25 lots average: $4,608

Since the beginning of 2017 Hired Hand has been compiling additional sales data and sharing it via our Blog and Mobile Marketing program. We plan to continue to share these stats from future consignment sales as well. We hope that they will be beneficial to breeders and show Industry sales trends. We welcome your feedback and requests.

Please find below some additional Hudson Valentine Sale results courtesy of your friends at Hired Hand*: 52 of 55 lots were sold for a total of $654,500. The Shown & Sold Average was $7,610.47.
Cow Sale Average: $8,804. 12 Cash Cows sold for a total of $278,000 and an average of $23,166.67. One of the Cash Cows sold on-line for $33,000. Lot 29 topped the Cow Sale at $86,000.

As 2016 ended, we released some new websites for Longhorn and Whitetail breeders, along with one business site. Check out these new designs and take a moment to learn about others within your industry.

Last week we announced the release of Breeder Beacon, a mobile app for Longhorn, Deer and Horse breeders. Breeder Beacon uses your phone's GPS location to show you fellow breeders in your surrounding area or on your route. In addition to being able to search by breeder type, name, ranch name, city, state, etc. users can also view breeders in map view or listing view. Users can even save a list of their favorites.

On April 25th we shared a blog about Making the Most Out of Sale Weekends. This is a follow up to that blog as well as a supplement to an article called "Making an Extra Marketing Effort" that appears in the June 2014 issue of the Texas Longhorn Journal. Please feel free to contact Molly with any questions, comments or suggestions for future posts.
Once again this Spring, I was able to attend most of the Texas Longhorn consignment sales held throughout the nation, representing Hired Hand Website Software. It’s always so nice, after a long winter, to see some of the best samples of this beautiful breed of cattle in addition to all of the breeders who make our Industry so welcoming and successful. One of my favorite parts of the Spring Sale Season is seeing various breeders who have been striving to make a name for their programs for years, or maybe only months, get their break-through in the sale ring. I’m happy to share just a few of this Spring’s success stories in this article.
It’s also nice to see that seemingly each of the Spring consignment sales have made a nice niche for themselves in the Industry. Serving various groups of breeders through the caliber of Longhorns the sale encourages; buyers the sale attracts; convenient location; co-hosting with a competition or another event; or the tradition of a good time and good prices is what can allow for a variety of breeders to see success during any given year and sale.

Hired Hand had a booth to serve current and new customers at the 2014 Hudson Valentine Sale and Southeastern Winchester Futurity, April 4-5th in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and engaged our services to help market their consignments for this one-of-a-kind sale.